Health and Human Rights

Bibliography compiled by Molly Ryan
Fall, 1997

Pharmaceuticals


B

Bledsoe, CH and Goubaud, MF (1985). The reinterpretation and distribution of conceptual frameworks and pharmaceuticals: an example from the Mende of Sierra Leone. Social Science and Medicine, 21(275).

Braithwaite, John (1984). Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Routledge, London.


C

Chetley, A (1989). A Healthy Business? World Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Zed Books, London.


F

Fabricant, SJ. and Hirschhorn, N. (1987). Deranged distribution, perverse prescription, unprotected use: the irrationality of pharmaceuticals in the developing world. Health Policy Planning, 2(3):204.

Ferguson, AE (1988). Commercial pharmaceutical medicine and medicalization: a case study from El Salvador. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.


G

Goldman, R. (1992). Reading Ads Socially. Routledge, NY.

Greenhalg, T. (1987). Drug prescription and self-medication in India: an exploratory study. Social Science and Medicine, 25(307).


H

Hammer, J.S. (1992). To prescribe or not to prescribe: on the regulation of pharmaceuticals in less developed countries. Social Science and Medicine, 34(9):959-64.


J

Jayaraman, K (1986). Drug Policy: Playing Down Main Issues. Economic and Political Weekly, 21(25-26):1129-1132.

----------------(1986). Drug Policy: Reinterpreting Issues. Economic and Political Weekly, 21(18):798-800.


K

Kippen, Alexander (1990). Doctored results: how drug companies bribe doctors and medical journals. Washington Monthly, 22(9):38.

Kunin, CM (1993). Resistance to Antimicrobial drugs -- a worldwide calamity. Annals of Internal Medicine, 118(7):557-561.


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Lall, Sanjaya (1977). Medicines and Multinationals: Problems in the Transfer of Pharmaceutical Technology to the Third World. Monthly Review, 28(10:19-30.

Lee, Philip and Milton Silverman (1974). Pills, Profits, and Politics. UC Press, Berkeley.

Leslie, Charles (1989). Indigenous Pharmaceuticals, the Capitalist World System, and Civilization. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers Number 69-70:23-31.

Lilja, J. (1983). Indigenous and Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies. Social Science and Medicine, 17(6):1171-1180.

Lock, Margaret (1990). Rationalization of Japanese Herbal Medications: the hegemony of orchestrated pluralism. Human Organization, 49(1):41-47.


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McDonnell, K ed. (1986). Adverse Effects: Women and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Women's Educational Press, International Organization of Consumers' Unions, Toronto.

Mintz, Morton (1990). At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women and the Dalkon Shield. Public Citizens Health Research Group, Washington, DC.

Muller, Mike (1982). The Health of Nations: An Investigation of the Pharmaceutical Industry's Exploitation of the Third World for Profit. Faber and Faber, London.

Multinational Monitor (1992). A healthy drug policy for the third world: an interview with Kumariah Balasubramanium. 13(12):25.

Murray, MJ (1974). The pharmaceutical industy: A further study in corporate power. International Journal of Health Services, 8(4):573-588.


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Nichter, Mark and Nancy Vuckovic (1994). Agenda for an Anthropology of Pharmaceutical Practice. Social Science and Medicine.39(11):1509-1525.

Nichter, M (1989). Pharmaceuticals, health commodification, and social relations: ramnifications for primary health care. In Anthropology and International Health. Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht.

----------(1996). Paying for What Ails You: Sociocultural Issues Influencing the ways and means of therapy payment in South Asia. In Anthropology and International Health, 2nd edition, Gordon and Breach Publishers, Australia.


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Phadke, A. (1986). Drug Policy: Industry's Misleading Arguments. Economic and Political Weekly, 21(19):842-843.

Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism and Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (1992). Prescription for Change. National Drug Policies, Social Transformation and the Media. Health Action Information Network, Manila, Philippines.

Poh-ai, T. (1985). Ciba-Geigy's Cover-Up. Multinational Monitor, 6(11):1-3.

Pondechery Science Forum (1986). Health of the People vs. Health of the Industry. Chennai Books, Madras.


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Reeler, A V (1990). Injections: A fatal attraction? Social Science and Medicine, 31(1119).


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Scheper-Hughes, N. (1992). Death Without Weeping: Everyday Violence in Northeastern Brazil. UC Press, Berkeley.

Silverman, Milton (1992). Bad Medicine: The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Silverman, Milton, Lee, Philip, and Lydecker, Mia (1982). Prescriptions for Death: the Drugging of the Third World. UC Press, Berkeley.

Silverman, M. (1979). The Drugging of the Americas. UC Press, Berkeley.


T

Taylor, D. (1986). The Pharmaceutical Industry and Health in the Third World. Social Science and Medicine, 22(11):1141-1149.


V

van der Geest, S. and Whyte, SR eds.(1988). The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries.Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Victoria, C.G. (1982). Statistical Malpractice in Drug Promotion: Case-Study from Brazil. Social Science and Medicine, 16:707-709.


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Wallack, L. and Montgomery, K (1992). Advertising for all by the year 2000: public health implications for less developed countries. Health Policy, 13(204).

Wolf-Gould, CS et al (1991). Misinformation about medications in rural Ghana. Social Science and Medicine, 33(83).

Wolffers, I. (1995). The role of pharmaceuticals in the privatization process in Vietnam's health-care system. Social Science and Medicine, 41(9):1325-32.

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